Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Hendricks had a good, secure job, teaching English and the humanities at Illinois Tech; he had been there for 25 years. But he had always had another kind of college in his mind's eye: a small one, about town-meeting size. Hendricks thought he knew just the place...
...steamy, 100° Melbourne weather would melt the starch right out of the challenging U.S. Davis Cup stars, Kramer & Schroeder. The starch oozed out of the Australians instead. They lost five straight matches (and the cup). But instead of acting crushed, the Australians got a gleam in their eye. Sir Norman Brookes, boss of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association and onetime Wimbledon champion, issued a communiqué: "The aggressive type of tennis played by your men should have a great influence on our future stars...
Bird's-Eye View. Allowing for this rise in costs, and even with all the postponements, the rate at which new capital investments are being made is still at an alltime high. The utility and oil industries account for much of it. Electric light and power companies are in the early stages of a five-year expansion program that will cost $5 billion before it is finished. By the end of next year, oil companies will make additions and improvements worth some $4 billion, a boost of more than 22% in their total investments...
Commuter's-Eye View. Some of the plants, like the efficiently elegant one recently completed by Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings) in Cranford, N.J. (see cut), are far removed from the belching smokestacks that were once the hallmark of industry. Each week brings news of new factories that will change the economic shape of some small town. Last week, for example, Ball Brothers Co. (glass preserving jars) announced the opening of a $3,000,000 plant in El Monte, Calif., and the Electric Auto-Lite Co, (lighting, starting and ignition equipment) announced that it will soon start work...
Bemelmans himself has done time as a Hollywood scripter. The story he tells is as damply sentimental as any screened by Moses Fable. But his eye is as sharp as a vermicologist's for the peculiar inhabitants of the peculiar Hollywood world-a world that Dirty Eddie holds in his mouth like a candied apple in a delicatessen' boar's head...